Month: July 2021

BREAKING: Nigeria Declares Tuesday July 20, Wednesday 21 Public Holidays

ADEOLA YUSUF

  To commemorate this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebrations, the Federal Government has proclaimed Tuesday and Wednesday next week as public holidays. Dr. Shuaib Belgore, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, said this in a statement on Thursday.   READ ALSO: COVID-19: UNILAG shuts student hostels indefinitely BREAKING: Popular Singer, Sound Sultan, is dead Saudi dashes 160,000 Nigerians’ Hope, Bars Foreign Pilgrims from Hajj 2021 BREAKING: FG Declares Tuesday 20, Wednesday 21 Public Holidays    According to Belgore, Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf of…

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Why we’re setting up Kwara Education Trust Fund: Gov AbdulRazaq

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Kwara state Governor inaugurates Lateef Fagbemi’s ICT Centre   Kwara is establishing an education trust fund to mobilise resources for school infrastructure, provide affordable and qualitative education, and boost human capital development in the state, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq said on Wednesday. Speaking at the inauguration of a multimillion naira information communication technology (ICT) centre and a central administrative block donated to the Ansaru-ud-Deen College Ijagbo by Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), AbdulRazaq said the administration seeks sustainable partnership with private sector, philanthropists and corporations to fund school infrastructure, manpower development…

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COVID-19: UNILAG shuts student hostels indefinitely

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The management of the University of Lagos has shut down the student hostels over reported cases of coronavirus on the campus. A member of the university’s Senate confirmed this to our correspondent on Wednesday. He said: “After getting the report, which I don’t like to discuss with you, we decided that the hostels should be shut down.” On whether COVID-19 Delta variant was discovered on the university campus, the source said: “No further comment.”

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33 killed, four churches, 215 homes burnt in Zangon Kataf LGA – SOKAPU

ADEOLA YUSUF

  For the 6th day running, armed gunmen, identified by their victims as Fulani herdsmen, have laid siege to several communities in Atyap land, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Southern Kaduna, leaving no fewer than 33 people dead an ongoing genocide and land grabbing in which 108 Southern Kaduna communities have been displaced and taken over since 2019. According to a statement signed by Luka Binniyat, the spokesperson for the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, in the latest orgy of bloodshed, the invaders stormed Magamiya village Tuesday night around 11pm…

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BREAKING: Nigeria raked in $34.28b Oil, Gas revenues in 2019, NEITI reveals

ADEOLA YUSUF

Here is an executive summary of the latest audit report by NEITI + how NNPC, IOCs, NDDC, NCDMB, and Federal ministry of Finance (FMF) were mentioned in the report     The Nigerian government raked in $34.28 billion from oil and gas sector in 2019. Platforms  Africa reportsi that the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency (NEITI), which showed this in its 2019 audit report presented to the media and civil Society organisations (CSO) in Lagos on Tuesday, declared that a whopping $8.487 billion of the total receipt came from the sales…

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Nigerian Senate Rejects Buhari’s ex-aide Onochie As INEC Commissioner

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  The Nigerian Senate has rejected presidential media aide, Lauretta Onochie, as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Platforms Africa reports that Onochie, a former aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, has been immersed in a serious controversy on her membership of the ruling Alla Progressives Congress (APC). The upper legislative chamber rejected her appointment after Kabiru Gaya, chairman of the INEC committee, presented a report in plenary. She was nominated for the job by President Muhammadu Buhari in October 2020.   READ ALSO: House, DPR on…

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House, DPR on Collision Course Over Oil Block’s Revocation, Awards

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Experts back DPR, say House lacks power to reverse Dawes Island Marginal oilfield’s Award   The Nigeria’s House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Petitions and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) are on collision course over Dawes Island marginal field lost by Eurafric for holding the national asset without production and making it unviable for seventeen years. Platforms Africa reports that the Minister of Petroleum Resource through the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), a regulator empowered by law, awarded the field to Petralon 54 Limited and its partners during the…

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Man steals company’s bike three days after employment, arrested

ADEOLA YUSUF

A dispatched rider, Emmanuel Samuel, was on Sunday July 11 2021 arrested by men of the Ogun State police command while running away with the motorcycle given to him by his company to dispatch their goods. Samuel was arrested when he was accosted by policemen from Ogere division who were on routine patrol of their area. They stopped the suspect, demanded for the documents of the bike which he produced on the spot. But while going through the documents, it was discovered that the motorcycle was registered on the 12th…

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Kaduna Popular Monarch, Emir of Kajuru, regains freedom

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The Emir of Kajuru in Kaduna State, Alhaji Alhassan Adamu, who was abducted on Sunday has regained his freedom. Kaduna State police command’s public relations officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday, in Kaduna.   READ ALSO: Bandits Assasinate Nigeria’s Popular monarch Emir of Kontagora’s Son Outcry as Nigeria’s Ekitii Popular Monarch is shot, hospitalised BREAKING: 85-year old Emir Of Kajuru, 13 Family Members kidnapped   Jalige said details of how the ruler was freed would be communicated in due course.…

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‘I didn’t kill Ataga,’ 21 year-old UNILAG student, Chidinma, makes U-Turn

ADEOLA YUSUF

Chidinma Ojukwu, the 21 year-old student of the University of Lagos arrested in connection with the murder of Michael Ataga has made a u-turn on her earlier confession as she denied killing the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Super TV. Ataga was found dead days after checking into an apartment with the suspect in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital.   READ ALSO: I Tied Ataga’s Hands Before Stabbing Him To Death + How We Met – Chidinma How I Stabbed, Killed Super TV CEO – 21 Year-old UNILAG Student +…

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